American contagions : epidemics and the law from smallpox to COVID-19 /

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"From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Witt, John Fabian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Epidemics > United States > History.
Public health laws > United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) > Law and legislation > United States.
Communicable diseases > United States.
COVID-19 (Disease) > United States.
Communicable diseases.
Coronavirus
Communicable Diseases
Epidemics > history
Public Health > legislation & jurisprudence
Maladies infectieuses > États-Unis.
COVID-19 > États-Unis.
Maladies infectieuses.
Épidémies > États-Unis > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Communicable diseases
COVID-19 (Disease)
Epidemics
Public health laws
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The sanitationist state
  • Quarantinism in America
  • Civil liberties in an epidemic?
  • New sanitationisms / new quarantinisms
  • Masked faces toward the past
  • Afterword: Viral protests.

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